Baldwin the Merciful's - CoT Campaign
(Inactive)

This is Council of Thieves AP. Westcrown, City of Twilight, once was the center of Aroden's faith, but now it symbolizes despair. By day, the city remains a vibrant center of trade; but, by night only those with a death wish venture out.

Sorry guys. If we all get out alive, we can strategize on my spell selection. I am built as a battlefield controller and this battle did not set up well. If I had prepared some AOE evocation spells, we would have been in a better spot.

Yeah, this encounter, assuming we get out alive, has been thoroughly humbling. -_-

Now that we've got a dedicated control/buff spellcaster in the group, I'm thinking I should pick up a few more offensive spells as well, even if only in magic item format. Faelyn and I can coordinate our selections. :)

Yeah, this encounter, assuming we get out alive, has been thoroughly humbling. -_-

Now that we've got a dedicated control/buff spellcaster in the group, I'm thinking I should pick up a few more offensive spells as well, even if only in magic item format. Faelyn and I can coordinate our selections. :)

Andrea will run with the group but will also heal everyone up with her next channel and will also help slow down pursuit if need be by dropping a Sound Burst on a group of targets. She can also use Murderous Command on common troops to have them stab each other. Feel free to rifle through my spells and such.

Unfortunately my Real Life schedule will be picking up in a few days and I will be unable to devote enough time in keeping up with the amount of posts for this PbP.

I appears as if fate has worked things out well. Managing one post a day for the PbP's I am in is easily taken care of. Being able to keep up with things at the rate every one plays here I fear would be untenable.

I do wish very one all the very best and hope you find victory. :)

Much cheers to you and yours.

Edit: In passing I mention a thought. In regards to a new character, I have just acquired "Paths of prestige". Would the DM be interested in a nascent 'Mammoth Lord' perhaps? (^_~)

Unfortunately my Real Life schedule will be picking up in a few days and I will be unable to devote enough time in keeping up with the amount of posts for this PbP.

I appears as if fate has worked things out well. Managing one post a day for the PbP's I am in is easily taken care of. Being able to keep up with things at the rate every one plays here I fear would be untenable.

I do wish very one all the very best and hope you find victory. :)

Much cheers to you and yours.

Edit: In passing I mention a thought. In regards to a new character, I have just acquired "Paths of prestige". Would the DM be interested in a nascent 'Mammoth Lord' perhaps? (^_~)

Unfortunately my Real Life schedule will be picking up in a few days and I will be unable to devote enough time in keeping up with the amount of posts for this PbP.

I appears as if fate has worked things out well. Managing one post a day for the PbP's I am in is easily taken care of. Being able to keep up with things at the rate every one plays here I fear would be untenable.

I do wish very one all the very best and hope you find victory. :)

Much cheers to you and yours.

Edit: In passing I mention a thought. In regards to a new character, I have just acquired "Paths of prestige". Would the DM be interested in a nascent 'Mammoth Lord' perhaps? (^_~)

Well depending on what happens,I do want to have Andrea do retraining. When we first started I was putting some points into Use Magical Device since we didn't have an arcanist or bard who was building up UMD so those points are deadweight(More PER is nice) Since Andrea is inefficant at turning undead (Channel resistance, 1 minute duration and another save every round?) I want to switch that feat out with Alignment Channel so I can damage evil outsiders(This also leads into Holy Vindicator)

A big reason I want to do this is because Andrea is the first PF character I made for play on this board and I really just didn't understand the rules and things like channel resistance. So now having read some of the guides and knowing better how things work, I would like to refit Andrea.

Otherwise, great job everyone for such a great weekend with regards to posting. Weekends have been slow in the past with this game, but this has been one of the most active couple of days that we've had in a long time!

What. Baldwin would never do something like attack us with shadow beast right after we have used resources fighting a battle we weren't going to win.[/sarcasm]

You could have prevailed in the battle. Remember who ever sent this group knew of your group's fame.

Tactically, you had fog cover with concealment and there was a warehouse next to the group to enter. Taking position inside was an option. There was a ship next to the group, you could have done the same. Either would have created a completely different battle and lessened the enemies numbers advantage. Although you were a party of 9, and the PCs are no slouches in their abilities. Plus, there was a back alley at the end of the dock that was an option for escape.

The fodder had numbers on you: 14 footsoldiers, 7 archers, plus a battlemage. However, the ground troops were only able to put 2-3 fighters at a time. They never moved down the alleys to flank the group. The second squad was ineffective with the sleet and were there for reinforcement only. They never used their numbers to optimize the scenario. The archers only hit maybe two targets in five rounds? More background noise then anything. That was basically the purpose of the fog that the battlemage cast.

The battlemage was a challenge and I think it was the first time, I've used a true spell caster against this group, but he created the battlefield mostly. Creating spooky laughter and a voice to disorient the group. There was a weak swarm he summoned for 3 rounds, of which I only attacked 2-3 of those rounds, to harass Faelyn. Yeah, he did hit the group with that fireball which hurt.

What, probably, hurt the PCs the most was the lack of communicate with one another, but that is easily remedied.

Fame, yea. About time we hide ourselves we have gotten to well-known. I think having less fame is good since it helps us keep undercover, I would gladly give up discounts in return for being anonymous. I think the fame has gone to our heads and all, we should be going around in those masks we had in the first book but here we are doing murderplays and being celebrities. We should get back to doing the masked resistance fighters thing.

Edit. That is something I could do with Diplomacy perhaps. Give out misinformation that the Six-Fold Survivors have taken a 'sabbatical' and left town, or at least will not be performing again or something. That can reduce the heat on us. Then we can do stuff like free halfing slaves and prisoners of the Rack like those people hauled off for violating the 'No non-Asmodaian religons' thing.